BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two aspects ...

Monk offers the second and culminating volume of his biography of the philosopher and controversialist. Russell's original contributions to mathematics and logic by 1914 had established him as a world ...

One the giants of 20th century thinking, Bertrand Russell was a hugely influential philosopher, historian and social commentator. Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born on 18 May 1872, at ...

Generally recognised as one of the founders of analytical philosophy, Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) is perhaps Britain’s best-known, and most controversial, philosophical commentator of modern times.

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All comic books are about a hero’s journey. Each hero must travel the path destined for him, be it Superman, Batman, Maus or as is the case with Logicomix, Bertrand Russell. Sure, Russell was a ...

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also ...